Jason,

Not really -- it's either blackish or lit, just like the front.

To see the backside of surfaces:

set two_sided_lighting,1
set backface_cull,1

Also, sometimes it is helpful to get rid of shadows when doing this:

set ray_shadows, 0

Cheers,
Warren

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-
> ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Thomas Maynes
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:11 PM
> To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [PyMOL] Underside of surface color
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Is there any way to change the color of the underside of a surface.
Right
> now it is a very dark version of the top color.  I would like to be
able
> to look at the surface contour from underneath.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers,
> JTM
> 
> "We can be sure that if a detailed understanding of the molecular
basis of
> chemo-therapeutic activity were to be obtained, the advance of
medicine
> would be greatly accelerated."
> 
> Linus Pauling, Nobel Laureate 1954
> 
> "...everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the
> jigglings and wigglings of atoms."
> 
> Richard Feynman
> 
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> University of Alberta
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